18, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the evolution ... human language and technological culture may have evolved before humans and ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos both comfort distressed group members in similar ways, a new study from Durham University reveals, ...

Segmental duplications are important because they underlie several human diseases and have been key to shaping the evolution of great apes. For example, human-specific copy-number increases of ...

New research shows bonobos and chimpanzees comfort others at similar rates, challenging old beliefs about ape empathy.

Certain DNA sequences can form structures other than the canonical double helix. These alternative DNA conformations—referred ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He found a creative way to prove it.

Understanding the genomes of non-human apes is crucial because it gives geneticists insights into human evolution and the genetic factors that differentiate us from other apes, says Makova.

In a groundbreaking scientific achievement, researchers have recently successfully sequenced the complete genomes of six ...